
Foundations 3: Taking a Long View of Time, and Becoming “Critical Yeast”
On Being with Krista Tippett
Critical Yeast
John Paul Lederach has a phrase that he says captures all of this. He points out that when we think about how change happens in this society, and this is natural, we tell the story of those moments when critical mass arises. But wherever John Paul has been in these many places that have moved through many different kinds of conflict, that preceding and leading over years and decades and perhaps even long longer, there is what he calls critical yeast. This is small groups of people in unlikely combinations in a new quality of relationship.
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